Author:Herbert George Wells

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Herbert George Wells (1866–1946)

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British writer best known for his science fiction novels, he was arguably one of the most prolific writers in the history of literature, and wrote works in nearly every genre, including short stories and nonfiction. Pen name: H. G. Wells
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Herbert George Wells

Works

Scans

Novels

• The Time Machine (1895) (British edition: (transcription project))
• The Wonderful Visit (1895)
• The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)
• The Wheels of Chance (1896) (transcription project)
• The Invisible Man (1897) (online view: magazine version 1897)
• The War of the Worlds (1898) (originally serialized 1897; this copy circa 1910)
• Love and Mr. Lewisham (1899) 2nd ed.
• The First Men in the Moon (1901)
• The Sea Lady (1902)
• Mankind in the Making (1904) (transcription project)
• The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) (transcription project)
• Kipps (1905)
• The War in the Air (1908)
• Tono-Bungay (transcription project) (1909)
• Ann Veronica (1909) (transcription project)
• The Sleeper Awakes (1899, rewritten 1910) (transcription project)
• In the Days of the Comet (1906) (transcription project)
• The History of Mr. Polly (1910) (transcription project)
• The New Machiavelli (1911) (transcription project)
• The World Set Free (1914)
• The Soul of a Bishop (1917)
• The World of William Clissold (1926) (Project Gutenberg Australia)
• The Shape of Things to Come: The Ultimate Revolution (1933) (on Bibliowiki)

Short stories

• Æpyornis Island (1894)
• "The Apple", in Short Stories magazine, October 1896
• The Beautiful Suit (also called A Moonlight Fable) (1909)
• The Chronic Argonauts (1888)
• The Cone (1895)
• The Country of the Blind (1911)
• The Crystal Egg (1897)
• A Deal in Ostriches (1894)
• The Devotee Of Art (1888)
• The Diamond Maker (1894)
• The Discovery of the Future (1902)
• The Door in the Wall (1906)
• A Dream of Armageddon (1901)
• The Empire of the Ants (1905)
• A Family Elopement (1884)
• The Flowering of the Strange Orchid (1894)
• The Flying Man (1893)
• Filmer (1901)
• In the Avu Observatory (1894)
• In the Days of the Comet (pre-1907)
• The Jilting of Jane (1894)
• Jimmy Goggles the God (1898)
• The Lamias (1889)
• The Lord of the Dynamos (1894)
• The Magic Shop (1903)
• The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1898)
• Miss Winchelsea's Heart (1898)
• A Moth—Genus Novo (1895)
• Mr. Brisher's Treasure (1899)
• Mr. Ledbetter's Vacation (1898)
• Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland (1901)
• The New Accelerator (1901)
• The Obliterated Man (1895)
• The Plattner Story (1896)
• The Purple Pileus (1896)
• The Red Room (1896)
• The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes (1895)
• The Sea Raiders (1896)
• A Slip Under the Microscope (1896)
• The Star (1897)
• The Stolen Bacillus (1895)
• The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost (1902)
• The Stolen Body (1927) (on Bibliowiki)
• The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham (1896)
• A Tale of the Twentieth Century. For Advanced Thinkers (1887)
• The Temptation of Harringay (1895)
• Through a Window (1894)
• The Treasure in the Forest (1894)
• The Truth About Pyecraft (1903)
• The Triumphs of a Taxidermist (1894)
• Under the Knife (1896)
• The Valley of Spiders (1909)
• A Vision of the Past (1987)
• A Vision of Judgment (1927) (on Bibliowiki)
• Walcote (1989)

Short story collections

• Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences (1895)
• The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895)
• Thirty Strange Stories (1897)
• The Plattner Story and Others (1897) (external scan)
• Certain Personal Matters (1897)
• Tales of Space and Time (1899)
• Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903)
• The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911)
• The Door in the Wall and Other Stories (1911)
• An Englishman Looks at the World (1914)
• The Short Stories of H.G. Wells (1927)

Other

• Zoological Retrogression (1891)
• Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences (1895) (transcription project)
• Anticipations (1902) (external scan)
• The Misery of Boots (1907)
• New Worlds for Old (1908)
• Will Socialism Destroy the Home? (pre-1909)
• "The Grisly Folk and Their War With Men", (Saturday Evening Post, Jan 21, 1911) article
• The Salvaging of Civilization Saturday Evening Post
• Socialism and the great state (1912) (transcription project)
• Floor Games (pre-1913)
• Little Wars (1913)
• "Heroic Airmen Are Key To Victory" (Daily Mail, 9 August 1918) article
• What is Coming (1918)
• Washington and the Riddle of Peace (1922)
• Outline of History (external scan) (Vol 1, Vol 2)
• A Short History of the World (external scan)
• Mankind in the Making
• A Modern Utopia
• 1934 Interview with Joseph Stalin
• Crux Ansata (An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church) (1943) (external scan) and (external scan)

Works about Wells

• "Wells, Herbert George, B.Sc.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Wells, Herbert George," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Wells, Herbert George," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Wells, Hitler and the World State", by George Orwell (1941)

Parodies of Wells

• The Defossilized Plum-Pudding by Max Beerbohm
• General Cessation Day by Max Beerbohm
• Perkins and Mankind by Max Beerbohm